Quotes About Intimacy

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our "madness" to unite us, there wasn't anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.

It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

Sammy, we were together. You must know that. When I'm honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to

What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?

Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.

Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new.

Love me? You don't even know me," A.J. says. "Little girl, you shouldn't go throwing around your love so easily.

Why was it so hard for him to say he loved her even when she said it to him? He knew he loved her. People who felt far less for each other said "love" all the time, and it didn't mean a thing. And maybe that was the point. He more than loved Sadie Green. There needed to be another word for it.

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.

their fingertips casually touching, in the way of people who were entirely comfortable around each other. She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her. There is love here, she thought. In the end, she decided, with some amount of disappointment, that none of them were involved romantically.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.